Dagstuhl Seminar 24081
Computational Approaches to Strategy and Tactics in Sports
( Feb 18 – Feb 23, 2024 )
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Organizers
- Ulf Brefeld (Universität Lüneburg, DE)
- Jesse Davis (KU Leuven, BE)
- Laura de Jong (Deakin University - Melbourne, AU)
- Stephanie Kovalchik (Zelus Analytics - Austin, US)
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- Andreas Dolzmann (for scientific matters)
- Simone Schilke (for administrative matters)
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The past decade has seen a rapid growth in the ability to collect large-scale spatiotemporal data sets about sports. Ideally, such data should be used to inform strategic and tactical decision making. On the one hand, strategy is the long-term planning of training sessions, signing of coaches and athletes, rotation and the plan made before a match/race. On the other hand, tactics are short-term and involve the execution and adaptation to the match/race plan. Having insights into the efficacy and feasibility of strategies and tactics is particularly important and challenging within sports because effective and novel strategy & tactics allow weaker teams or athletes to win against stronger ones. Unfortunately, the size, richness, and complexity of modern spatiotemporal sports data means that automated analysis is essential. Alas, the nature of the data has posed a number of challenges for classic analysis techniques. This has spurred the development of novel statistical and machine learning techniques in order to perform more fine-grained analysis of every action and decision during a competitive event.
In this Dagstuhl Seminar, we aim to bring together sports researchers in academia and industry to understand how they are using machine learning and statistical techniques to analyze strategy and tactics. Understanding, formalizing, discovering, and analyzing strategy & tactics pose a number of key challenges from a computational perspective, which include the following aspects:
- From a modeling perspective, what is the best way to represent discovered strategic and tactical concepts?
- How can we evaluate the efficacy of different strategies and tactics?
- How do you communicate the findings from tactical studies to an interdisciplinary audience?
- How can computational approaches be used to support decision making for coaching?
- What kind of data and domain knowledge are needed to conduct strategic and tactical studies?
The goal of the seminar is to explore and discuss how we can and should answer these questions.
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Ulf Brefeld, Jesse Davis, Laura de Jong, and Stephanie Kovalchik
- Gabriel Anzer (Hertha BSC - Berlin, DE) [dblp]
- Felipe Arruda Moura (State University of Londrina, BR)
- Pascal Bauer (Frankfurt am Main, DE) [dblp]
- Joris Bekkers (Breda, NL)
- Luke Bornn (Zelus Analytics - Sacramento, US) [dblp]
- Timothy Chan (University of Toronto, CA)
- Jesse Davis (KU Leuven, BE) [dblp]
- Laura de Jong (Deakin University - Melbourne, AU)
- Uwe Dick (Sportec Solutions - Unterföhring, DE) [dblp]
- Max Goldsmith (RBFA - Tubize, BE)
- Florentina Hettinga (University of Northumbria - Newcastle, GB)
- Benjamin Holmes (University of Liverpool, GB)
- Mamiko Kato (Toyo University - Tokyo, JP)
- Matthias Kempe (University of Groningen, NL)
- Hyunsung Kim (Seoul National University, KR)
- Stephanie Kovalchik (Zelus Analytics - Austin, US)
- Martin Lames (TU München, DE) [dblp]
- Daniel Link (TU München, DE) [dblp]
- Jim Little (University of British Columbia - Vancouver, CA) [dblp]
- Patrick Lucey (Stats Perform - Chicago, US) [dblp]
- Jakub Michalczyk (Sportec Solutions - Unterföhring, DE)
- Darren O'Shaughnessy (St Kilda Football Club - Moorabbin, AU)
- Sigrid Olthof (John Moores University - Liverpool, GB)
- David Radke (Chicago Blackhawks, US)
- Pegah Rahimian (Twelve Football - Stockholm, SE)
- Yannick Rudolph (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, DE) [dblp]
- Martin Rumo (OYM AG - Cham, CH) [dblp]
- Nathan Sandholtz (Brigham Young University, US)
- Raimund Seidel (Universität des Saarlandes - Saarbrücken, DE) [dblp]
- Joshua Smith (Concordia University - Montreal, CA)
- Tim Swartz (Simon Fraser University - Burnaby, CA)
- Jan Van Haaren (FC Bruges, BE) [dblp]
- Maaike Van Roy (KU Leuven, BE) [dblp]
- Christoph Weber (DBS - Frechen-Buschbell, DE)
- Hendrik Weber (DFL - Frankfurt, DE) [dblp]
- Albrecht Zimmermann (Caen University, FR) [dblp]
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Classification
- Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
- sports
- machine learning
- spatio-temporal data
- explainability
